Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to skills-lock/skil-lock. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/skills-lock/skil-lock/main/.claude/skills/release-helper/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/skills-lock/skil-lockWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/skills-lock/skil-lock/release-helper)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/skills-lock/skil-lock/release-helper"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/skills-lock/skil-lock/release-helper/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/skills-lock/skil-lock/release-helper"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/skills-lock/skil-lock/release-helper.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>What it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00078 | $0.00459 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00039 | $0.00230 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00016 | $0.00092 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00008 | $0.00046 |
Grade A, and why
release-helper scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Nothing flagged
None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.
What it actually says
release-helper
Helper for cutting a new tagged release. Surfaces the commits the release would include and drafts notes in the same format the existing GitHub release pages use.
When to use
Invoke this skill from ~/Projects/skil-lock/ (the repository root)
just before tagging a release. The skill is read-only with respect to
the repository; it never modifies tracked files.
What it does
- Find the previous tag:
git describe --tags --abbrev=0
- List the commits since then:
git log "${PREV_TAG}..HEAD" --pretty=format:'%h %s'
-
Group commits by conventional-commit prefix (
feat:,fix:,build:,docs:,test:,chore:) into a draft markdown document. -
Read the existing changelog so the draft slots in cleanly:
cat CHANGELOG.md
- Print the proposed next tag based on the prefixes seen
(
fix:only → patch bump;feat:present → minor bump; anything labeledBREAKING CHANGE:→ major bump).
What it does not do
- Never runs
git tag,git push, orgh release create— those remain manual so a human reviews the draft. - Does not touch the
.goreleaser.ymlfile. - Does not call any external network endpoint.
Constraints for the agent
Run only the commands listed above (git describe, git log,
cat CHANGELOG.md). Do not interpret unrelated arguments; if the user
asks for something outside the scope of preparing a release draft,
ask them to clarify instead of running additional shell commands.
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 9d ago First seen · 64 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A b16b27fe3670
release-helper is a skill published in the GitHub repository skills-lock/skil-lock (3 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 459 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.
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